The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014

Matrimonial Causes Act 1973

6.—(1) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 11(2) (grounds on which a marriage is void), after “1971” insert “, other than a marriage to which section 12A applies,”.

(3) In section 12(3) (grounds on which a marriage is voidable), after “1971” insert “, other than a marriage to which section 12A applies,”.

(4) After section 12, insert—

“Grounds on which a marriage converted from a civil partnership is void or voidable

12A.— (1) This section applies to a marriage which has been converted, or is purported to have been converted, from a civil partnership under section 9 of the 2013 Act and regulations made under that section.

(2) A marriage which results from the purported conversion of a void civil partnership is void.

(3) A marriage which results from the conversion of a civil partnership is voidable if any of paragraphs (c) to (h) of section 12(1) applied at the date from which the marriage is treated as having subsisted in accordance with section 9(6) of the 2013 Act.

(4) In this section, the “2013 Act” means the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.”.

(1)

1973 c. 18.

(2)

Section 11 was amended by the Marriage Act 1983, section 2(4), the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16), the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 (c. 42), the Schedule, paragraph 2(2), section 6(4), the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 27, paragraph 40 and the Act, Schedule 7, paragraphs 26 and 27.

(3)

Section 12 was amended by the Act, Schedule 4, paragraphs 4(1) to (3), the Mental Health Act (c. 20), Schedule 4, paragraph 34 and by the Gender Recognition Act 2004, Schedule 2, paragraphs 1 and 2 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 4

and 5.